Coming off a career year in 2025, Price Control made his first start of 2026 a winning one in the featured $22,000 pace at Plainridge Park on Thursday (July 9).
Author: by Tim Bojarski, for the Standardbred Owners of Massachusetts
Maine freshmen highlight Cumberland weekend
Three $14,000 Maine Sire Stakes divisions for 2-year-old pacing colts and geldings bolster Friday’s (July 10) 13-race card at Cumberland Raceway, with the freshmen sidesteppers all making their first pari-mutuel starts.
July Hoof Beats: Class of 2026
The July issue of Hoof Beats shares the stories of this year’s Harness Racing Hall of Fame inductees, who received the sport’s highest honor on July 5, in Campbell Hall, N.Y.
Hoof Beats: Helping Our Horses
ver the last several years, conversations surrounding equine welfare and racing safety have increasingly moved from a general discussion to actual measurable expectations. Regulators, industry organizations, racetracks, horsepeople, veterinarians and the public are all asking similar questions: What information is being collected? What trends are being identified? And how is the racing industry using that information to improve the safety and long-term welfare of our horses?
Pennsylvania fair season gets underway
The 2026 Pennsylvania fair racing season, featuring top state-sired 2- and 3-year-olds in the summer-long Pennsylvania Fair Sire Stakes, began this Wednesday and Thursday (July 1-2) at the Big Butler Fair, in west-central Pennsylvania.
Nightlife In wins ‘Sweden’s Hambletonian’
Nightlife In, driven by Carl Johan Jepson and trained by David Persson, won both his elimination heat and the final of the Sprintermästaren — the race popularly known as “Sweden’s Hambletonian” — on Thursday (July 2) at Halmstad.
Scioto to showcase the ‘Next Generation’ Sat.
The seventh annual Next Generation for pacers and sixth annual Next Generation for trotters are coming up Saturday (July 4) at Eldorado Scioto Downs. Each of the four divisions for freshmen have a $150,000 purse.
Meadows sets all-time handle record
Hollywood Casino at The Meadows set its all-time single-card handle record on Thursday (July 2).
Warren’s Charm, Lovers Cay DSBF filly winners
Rodney Wyatt and Jason Skinner’s Warren’s Charm ($2.10, Tim Tetrick) and Anthony Carson’s Lovers Cay ($2.40, Brandon Givens) won their respective $20,000 Delaware Standardbred Breeders’ Fund (DSBF) divisions for 3-year-old pacing fillies on Tuesday (June 30) at Harrington Raceway.
Hey Porter delivers in Plainridge trot
Following fast early fractions, Hey Porter did his best work late and won the $25,000 Open Trot at Plainridge Park on Tuesday (June 30).